Israel kills 26 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn

At least six Palestinians waiting for aid have been shot dead by Israeli forces near southern Gaza’s Rafah city, raising the number of people killed across the enclave to 26, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.
United States President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have met for the second time in 24 hours about a ceasefire in Gaza, but there appears to be no breakthrough.
Released Palestinian prisoners detail torture and abuse in Israeli jails
The number of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons has hit its highest number in a quarter of a century.

Rights groups say there are 10,800 Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails. At least 50 are women, and more than 450 are children. More than 3,600 are held without charge or trial. Their detention can be extended indefinitely.

These figures don’t include all detainees arrested from Gaza and held in the Israeli army’s military camps.

At least 73 Palestinians have died in prisons and military detention facilities since October 2023. Rights groups accuse Israeli forces of abuse, torture and medical negligence.Israeli torture of Palestinian prisoners ‘widespread and systematic’: UN expert
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, says the torture of Palestinian prisoners has become commonplace since October 7, 2023.

On social media platform X, Albanese responded to a post about the 2024 gang-rape of a Palestinian prisoner by guards at the Sde Teiman detention facility by saying the assault was “not an isolated case – it’s part of a pattern”.

“Since October 7, torture against Palestinian prisoners has become widespread and systematic. Both male and female detainees have been subjected to sexual violence, including rape,” she said.

Albanese said this was not only a matter of “cruelty: inflicting severe physical or mental harm on members of a group ‘as such’ is a constitutive element of genocide”.

“How much more evidence do people need to understand what is happening?”At least six aid seekers killed by Israeli forces near southern Gaza’s Rafah
Israeli forces have shot six Palestinians dead and injured several more as they waited for aid north of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah.

That’s according to a medical source speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.